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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Robinson Crusoe probably has more misconceptions surrounding it than just about any other novel in English literature. For a start, it’s often claimed it was the first novel (it wasn’t). It’s sometimes claimed, with a little more nuance, that it was the first English novel (it wasn’t). It’s also ...

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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Astrophil and Stella by Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86) is the first substantial sonnet sequence in English literature. Although there had been earlier collections that featured sonnets (George Gascoigne’s A Hundreth Sundrie Flowers, published in 1573, being perhaps the most notable), and Anne Locke’s religious Meditation of a Penitent S...

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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) An Elizabethan playwright and poet from Warwickshire (who, among other things, gave us the phrase ‘all’s well that ends well’) furnishes the Oxford English Dictionary with its earliest citation for ‘pickle’ in the sense of ‘a (usually disagreeable) condition or situation; a plight, a predicament’. It’s often claimed that ...

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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) What was the first great epic poem in English literature? It’s sometimes claimed that Beowulf should have that title, so my subtitle for this week’s dispatch makes a somewhat contentious claim. It depends on how we view ‘English’, both as an identity and as a language. But there is ...

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